FAIRplus use case IMI EUbOPEN: Open by design saves time

EUbOPEN is an international consortium of 22 partners from academia and industry, funded by IMI/IHI. The goal of EUbOPEN is to create a library of compounds binding to 1,000 proteins. These ~5,000 compounds will be well characterized for their ability to interact with human proteins within their native environment, the cell. EUbOPEN is fully committed to Open Science and thus aims to publish all its generated data open and fully accessible to everyone. Therefore, the EUbOPEN project has been working with experts from the FAIRplus project from the start. The IMI FAIRplus project aims to develop tools and guidelines for making life science data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). In the past year, the so-called ‘squad teams’ from FAIRplus, consisting of experts working in universities and pharmaceutical companies, have been actively working to FAIRify data sets from large IMI projects such as EUbOPEN, APPROACH, eTOX, and COMBINE. The developed tools and methods are subsequently added as ‘recipes’ to the FAIR Cookbook, enabling projects and companies with similar FAIR data challenges to apply this consolidated know-how to increase the FAIRness of their data.